Stefan Wertheimer 🎲 (🏡)

Software Engineer // Space Enthusiast // Coach // Agile Incubator // Scrum // XP // Product Owner (he/him)

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Has anyone got contact details for Alanis Morissette?

[Bürgis Watch @BurgerleinWatch]

CARTOON DES TAGES ⬇️

(LG an @CDU und @CSU)

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

[poorly drawn lines @PDLComics]

It's actually easy.

[Der Gegenspiegel @HeiKolbe]

Heute habe ich mit meiner Schwester (Pflegegrad 4) über die geplante Pflegereform von Ministerin Warken gesprochen.
Als ich ihr erklärt habe, was da auf uns zukommen könnte, brach bei ihr etwas.
Am Ende fragte sie mit zitternder Stimme: „Aber du steckst mich jetzt nicht ins Heim, oder?“
Ich hatte Tränen in den Augen. Diesen Satz werde ich nie vergessen. 😔
4,9 Millionen Menschen werden in Deutschland zu Hause von Angehörigen gepflegt. Aus Liebe. Weil Pflegeheime voll sind und Pflegedienste fehlen. Wir waschen, füttern, trösten, sind 24/7 im Einsatz – 365 Tage im Jahr.
Und was macht diese Regierung? Sie macht genau diesen letzten großen Baustein kaputt:

Verhinderungspflege wird gestrichen (nur noch über Pflegedienst – auf dem Dorf ein Witz)

Rentenbeiträge für pflegende Angehörige um 30 % gekürzt

Weitere Leistungen werden zusammengestrichen

Das ist kein Sparen mehr. Das ist Verrat an den Schwächsten und denen, die sie lieben.
Meine Schwester hat Angst. Und ich auch. Weil ich nicht weiß, wie lange ich das noch schaffen kann – und was dann mit ihr passiert.

@CDU @nina_warken Wie könnt ihr Menschen, die ihr Leben für ihre Familie geben, so im Stich lassen?
Wer pflegt oder gepflegt wird – bitte teilt das. Das muss raus. ❤️‍🩹
#Pflegereform #PNOG #PflegeNotstand #AngehörigePflegen #Würde #CDU #Gesundheitsministerium

[Variety @Variety]

Sarah Michelle Gellar pays tribute to her "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" co-star Anthony Head following his death:

"'Tell Giles I figured it out and I’m ok’ Well I don’t have it figured out and I’m not ok. But I know I’m the lucky one because I knew you. Thank you to Daisy and Emily who not only shared their dad with me, but with the world."

https://t.co/NY9tj02SiH

[retrocvnt @retrocvnty]

Anthony Stewart Head has tragically passed away at 72, he will be missed by many 💔🕊️

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

Naming characters can be hard for authors and gamemasters.

One of the best jobs I've seen in naming fictional folk is Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship are Aragorn, Boromir, Frodo, Gandalf, Gimli, Legolas, Merry, Pippin, and Sam.

Only two of those names share an initial letter - Gandalf & Gimli. But those characters are arguably the two MOST disparate. In addition, "Gimli" has a completely different mouth feel from "Gandalf" so you're never confused.

Imagine if Merry was named "Peter" instead. You'd constantly be confusing Peter and Pippin, the two too-similar hobbits. Look at Faramir and Boromir - similar rhyming names helps us to remember they are brothers, but the different vowels and and first letter means we won't mix them up. When you rhyme Denethor, it doesn't exactly rhyme but the three-syllable "R" name makes it feel familial.
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[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Knowledge grows when you ask stupid questions. Stupidity grows when you don't ask anything.

[ON ～エンボあなたの、犬になりたい～ @Skapyon1986]

このコスプレ考えた人天才超えて盆栽

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

The M6 is 1,219,680 ft long; it's easier building things when they're on the floor.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The lighthouse of Þrídrangar (Thridarangar) , south of Iceland, a few kilometers off the Westman Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Not sure who's sillier on this site, Elon Musk for claiming history's most infamous far right dictator was a socialist, or the climate change sceptics for saying this temperature in May is fine because a few million years ago the surface of the planet was molten lava.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

Last week I posted this about my wife. I have to point out that when we got married, I was in school to become a zoologist. The whole game design thing came out of left field.

She loves it though. Last Friday out of the blue she told the poor cashier at the grocery store that I helped Doom and Age of Empires. When we're together, she'll buttonhole random strangers and ask them if they've heard of Cthulhu, then credit me with Lovecraft's popularization (with some justice).

It's embarrassing but it's also neat to have a wife so proud of you. Particularly with the modern age's general (not universal) attitude towards husbands.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Asterix Archiv 🐗 Comedix.de @Asterix_Archiv]

Heute ist der Welt-Schildkröten-Tag. Er wurde am 23. Mai 2000 von der American Tortoise Rescure ins Leben gerufen, um auf die Gefährdung des Artenbestandes hinzuweisen und Aktionen zum Schutz der Schildkröten öffentlich bekannt zu machen. In den Asterix-Abenteuern... [1/3]